Keffer: Cats are herded — for now

House Ways and Mean Chairman Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, sounded a note of caution when it comes to making changes in the expanded business tax that takes effect in 2008.

“The reason the margin tax … has any chance of becoming law however you stand on the issue is because all the cats are herded right now,” he said. “If we’re on that House floor or the Senate floor talking about an issue that was overlooked and needs to be changed because of fairness or whatever, it’s going to have be a specific and focused on what we’re doing with that industry.

“Because again, everybody’s going to have good reasons why they should not be in the tax or whatever, and there’s a thousand of them. I don’t belittle that.

I’m a taxpayer, too. I run a business, too. But that’s just the nature of the beast of these kind of bills,” he said.